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Non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information. Features articles, opportunities for action, membership information and events.
Resource for current news, events, reports and organizations. Also includes information on hate crimes and affirmative action.
Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape.
Although variable throughout the U.S., reported human rights violations knows no bounds as far as urban / rural, rich / poor areas. Human Rights Org's details on major U.S. cities.
Increasing numbers of immigrants are being incarcerated as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) attempts to fulfill the provisions of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act.
Losing the Vote, produced in collaboration between Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project, presents the first fifty-state survey of the effect of laws taking away the right to vote from people convicted of a felony.
Argues that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children.
Litigates, lobbies, and educates the public regarding on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
Provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States.
Organization helping Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands fight religious and political persecution and settle refugees.
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